Past Experience
Past Experience
2018 - present Director, HYCAR Research Unit, INRAE, France
I have been teaching hydrology since 2002.
I currently teach at Ecole des Ponts ParisTech and Centrale-Supelec.
I am an Assistant Editor for Journal of Hydrology.
2013-2017 Deputy Scientific Director, Cemagref-Irstea, France
1997-2012 Hydrology Group Leader, Cemagref-Irstea, France
1995-1997 Research Hydrologist, Cemagref, France
1995-1995 Agricultural Development Consultant, TACIS program, Armenia
1993-1995 Scientific Attaché, French Embassy in Yerevan, Armenia
2005 Sorbonne Université, Paris
Habilitation à Diriger les Recherches
2002 Sorbonne Université, Paris
PhD [Hydrology]
1992 University of Arizona, Tucson
MSc [Watershed Management]
1992 ENGREF (École nationale du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts)
Ingénieur du Génie Rural, des Eaux et des Forêts
1991 AgroParisTech (formerly Institut National Agronomique Paris-Grignon)
Ingénieur Agronome
Within the French system, I am Ingénieur Général des Ponts, des Eaux et des Forêts (untranslatable...)
I am a corresponding member of the Académie Royale des Science d’Outre Mer (Bruxelles), since 2013 and corresponding member of the Académie d'Agriculture de France since 2024.
I am the locum tenens Satrape of the Association Internationale d'Hydrologie Sociale.
I have received:
the Charles Grad prize from the Société de Géographie (2012)
the Ptolémée prize from the Festival International de Géographie de St Dié (2012)
the Tison prize from the International Association of Hydrological Sciences (2010)